This\u00a0comic is kept ad-free during its creation by\u00a0the generous donations of my wonderful fans<\/a>. If you don’t\u00a0feel like giving me money but want to support the comic, consider telling your friends about it – word of mouth is the best promotion!<\/p>\n A woman of few words. She prefers to let her incredibly graceful chassis speak for her; life is a dance, and she has the choreography backed up to the cloud.<\/li>\n A woman of the here and now. She used to be a dancer. Now she’s just drifting in a smoky cloud. Improvising, even.<\/li>\n A dragon, pretending to be something like a human, right down to the name. She’s got two elves in her bed and a modest hoard.<\/li>\n A Hat Lady under her last Hat, taking a journey to the source of all her world’s magic. A notorious flibbertigibbit.<\/li>\n He doesn’t seem to be a very nice guy. He’s pretty busy heading the Sunrise Foundation but that’s really no excuse. If he was a furry, his fursona would totally be a squid.<\/li>\n He’s kind of a jerk sometimes but Rita seems to like him a lot. He’s got some baggage he’s carrying around. If he was a furry, his fursona would totally be an octopus.<\/li>\n He’s a snarky dark elf who worships a spider goddess. If he was a furry, his fursona would totally be a tentacled horror from beyond the stars.<\/li>\n He’s the despotic ruler of a small, slightly-psychotic skyland. If he was a furry, his fursona would totally be an octopus-bunny hybrid.<\/li>\n Netrunner extrordinaire, the Theora Jones to Rita’s Edison Carter. And maybe more, if she has her way. She doesn’t know everything, but she sure knows where to go to find it out.<\/li>\n [ NULL POINTER ]<\/tt><\/li>\n A cleric of an unknown deity, who seems to know Rita’s True Name. Her variation of “Bigby’s Unmentionable Fist” is bit of a legend amongst her sect.<\/li>\n [ ?CORRUPT POINTER ]<\/tt><\/li>\n The best terrible ex Rita has ever had. A speed demon and a frequent respawner, he lives and dies for the thrill. Co-discoverer of the DeMoyle-Kirteen effect.<\/li>\n He has good hookups and throws fun parties, but his sys\u00adadmin day job is eating him alive. Nobody’s ever seen him entirely sober on his own time in years.<\/li>\n A foppish elfin archer who’s seen more than a few battles. His overconfidence is matched only by his luck\u2026 and his capacity for elderberry wine.<\/li>\n A dandified bard whose instrument of choice is an electric guitar and weaponized Frippatronics. He’s all grins and manic energy, as long as those little octagons hold out.<\/li>\n l337 hacker, with a very finely pruned streak of megalomania and a plan to remake the world. Barrett is her co-conspirator and her “It’s Complicated”.<\/li>\n She stared the Matrix delusion down one too many times and decided to find out what’s after GAME OVER.<\/li>\n A high elf with a taste for the monstrous. If you met her in a club in this world you might call her a “perkygoth”.<\/li>\n A lava-lamp boy of mysterious origin and uncertain agenda. His variation of “R=gby’s Uprai*%\u00aa\u2022\u00b5 \u03a9fG [ NULL POINTER ]<\/tt><\/li>\n Art director at a casual game studio. Like his boyfriend Tom, his job is kind of eating him alive. He’s been saying he’ll “quit and follow his own muse after one last game here” for the last three years.<\/li>\n A fifth-level fighter who’s definitely gotten the hang of this “adventurer” thing. Eminently sensible, except for the part where he’s been teaming up with Tom and Carol for the past three years.<\/li>\n A Hat Lord who has forgotten more about unarmed combat than you will ever know. Laconic and wry, he could kill you with his eyebrows alone but he’d rather argue you into submission.<\/li>\n ???FILE NOT FOUND<\/tt><\/li>\n One hundred and twenty minutes into the future \u2013 humanity\u2019s mechanical children are largely accepted as full members of the society; the asteroid belt is a thriving frontier.<\/li>\n The here and now. Well, the here and now if you live in an affluent city in the West Coast of the United States of America in the teen years of the twenty-first century.<\/li>\n The Skylands, a swirl of rocky islands orbiting the head of a Sleeping Goddess. A dizzy dream of Mary Poppins as Blackbeard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n What OS is Rita running?<\/p>\n A third-generation descendent of Urbit<\/a>. The particular revision she’s implemented on top of is the tenth major release, Flippant Jamicenis. (2024 note: This joke was funnier before Urbit’s creator came out as a total right-wing lunatic.)<\/p>\n Safety tip: Rita is a highly modified cyborg\/AI\/upload with tons of training and an onboard system that plots out spectacularly death-defying routes for her; you are not! Don’t try any of this at home, kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When a robot lady is dragged outside of reality by her ex-boyfriend, she’s got to pull herself back together across four parallel worlds\u2026 before a hive-mind can take over the entire planet! Decrypting Rita is a PG-13 science fiction comic by Egypt Urnash, produced almost entirely in Adobe Illustrator. 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\nRita<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nRita<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nRita<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nRita<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nBarrett<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nBarrett<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nBarrett<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nBarrett<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nCarol<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nCarol<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nCarol<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nCarol<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nTom<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nTom<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nTom<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nTom<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nKim<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nKim<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nKim<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nKim<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n[\u00a0###\u00a0DATA\u00a0CORRUPTED\u00a0]<\/tt><\/li>\n![\"cast-Gary1\"](\"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/files\/2011\/06\/cast-Gary1.png\")
\nGary<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nGary<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nGary<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nGary<\/a><\/h3>\n
The Panopticon<\/a><\/h3>\n
Setting<\/h3>\n
Setting<\/h3>\n
Setting<\/h3>\n
Greyhawk<\/s> The Forgotten Realms<\/s> Your teenage brother\u2019s AD&D campaign, after he took that PoliSci class and learnt about the plight of the oppressed native monsters.<\/li>\nSetting<\/h3>\n
Glossary.<\/h2>\n
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Frequently Asked Questions.<\/h2>\n
The Artist.<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Egypt Urnash<\/a> lives in Seattle, where she draws comics. She was born in New Orleans in 1971, and spent the later half of her twenties in the Hollywood animation industry. She refuses to comment on how many of the Ritas are Mary Sues.<\/p>\n